Long‐term monitoring and remote sensing reveal waterbird colony collapses with rising lake levels and multiple stressors
Jennifer L Fuller, Erin Ford, Ava Landgraf, Johannes Foufopoulos, Andrew Gronewold, Karen M Alofs · 2026
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Description
Jennifer Fuller and co-authors watch a Great Lakes bird colony fade as lake water rose, in a study from 2026. The bird is the Black Tern, a marsh nester whose numbers have slid. The team tracked one of the lake zone's largest colonies for eight years, from 2013 to 2020.
In that span, mean lake level in the breed months rose by more than a metre. Hatch success fell by more than half, and breed pairs fell by more than three quarters. Late nests, deep nest water, and thick reeds each cut hatch odds. Shore build-out and a reed invasion left the birds few fresh spots to move to. The team reads the fall as a pile-up of strains: fast water change plus old harms broke the marsh's spring.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jennifer L Fuller, Erin Ford, Ava Landgraf, Johannes Foufopoulos, Andrew Gronewold, Karen M Alofs |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |